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PM’s Official Web Site Targeted By Hackers

A cyber criminal known as Karan intentionally breached the official homepage of www.bbm.gov.tr, of the Turkish Prime Ministry's press center on May 1, 2008, in order to express opposition against the rising unemployment in the nation.

A message on the homepage greets guests to the site stated "Game Over. Your system is rooting". But, the Premier's press center was managed to contain the situation by posting a message stating, that the Web site was under construction owing to technical troubles.

The cyber criminal's message declared that as the Prime Minister does not care to pay heed to their protests, this is the only form of attracting his attention. Though there are several jobless people in Turkey, the Prime Minister still employing imams. Perhaps the nation ...